Quick Opinion: Report saying White House emails had been edited to remove references to a CIA warning about Libya

Republicans pounced on an ABC news report about White House emails that apparently were edited to omit references to a CIA warning about an al-Qaeda danger in Libya. If the reports are true, the nation deserves a prompt response from the White House to tough questions about it. We recommend not saying, “What difference does it make?”

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Where were all the Senate hearings after all these? Where were the chest thumping Republican committee chairmen then? Where were the A-J opinions then?

1987: Car Bomb Exploded Outside U.S. Embassy In Italy.
1983: Car Bomb Damaged U.S. Embassy In Kuwait.
1983: Bomb Blast At U.S. Embassy In Beirut Killed More Than 60, Including 17 Americans.
1990: Palestinian Guerrillas Attempted To Attack U.S. Embassy In Tel Aviv.
1998: Terrorist Bombs Near U.S. Embassies In Kenya, Tanzania Injured More Than 1,000 And Killed More Than 60, Including Eight Americans.
2002: U.S. Consulate In Karachi, Pakistan, Attacked; 10 Killed, 51 Injured.
2004: U.S. Embassy Bombed In Uzbekistan.
2004: Gunmen Stormed U.S. Consulate In Saudi Arabia.
2006: Armed Men Attacked U.S. Embassy In Syria.
2007: Grenade Launched Into U.S. Embassy In Athens.
2008: Rioters Set Fire To U.S. Embassy In Serbia.
2008: Ten People Killed In Bombings At U.S. Embassy In Yemen.

Did the President, Secretary of State, the White House Press Secretary and the Ambassador to the U.N. get up in front of all the news outlets and the U.N. and (what's worse......)the GRIEVING FAMILIES of these poor men and lie about what had happened? All using the same lie in these instances?

Where are all the progressives' chest thumping about that? I thought you all were a part of the "Most transparent administration EVER"?

This is an attempt to manufacture a scandal. The administration tried to tamp things down for a few days until they had all the facts. So? There was nothing to be gained in deception, and nothing to cover up. There is no "there" there.

It reminds me of Vince Foster. Wasn't Hillary having an affair with him? His body was moved? Hysterical nonsense, designed for consumption by the paranoid base.

But then some on your side actually claimed that Obama was soft on terrorism for kill Bin Laden. And what about all the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrators in the administration? You don't have any credibility -- you'll say anything. You're nuts.

Whatever you try to say in your defense (another diversion), you didn't answer the article's author.......you merely attempted to change the direction of attention. You made a diversion: The equivalent of "LOOK!! A squirrel!!!"

Did you answer my questions?
Or, for that matter.......did any of you? I didn't think so.

BTW, who's summerserve?

May, are you capable of making comments w/o demeaning the poster to whom you're replying? "Tamp down for a few days"........is that what you call it?
This is what you call lying to the public about what happened? Why? Couldn't have had anything to do with the election, could it? (Good time for "tamping down for anything negative about one party, correct?)

You guys bend over so far to protect this administration, it's laughable.

Just more diversion from the truth.

"Moreover, President Obama recently met with the father of Tyrone Woods, one of the men killed in Bengzahi, and according to the elder Mr. Woods, the President couldn’t even look him in the eye when he spoke to him (apparently with little empathy or care) about the death of his son:

“When [Obama] came over to our little area” at Andrew Air Force Base, says Woods, “he kind of just mumbled, you know, ‘I’m sorry.’ His face was looking at me, but his eyes were looking over my shoulder like he could not look me in the eye. And it was not a sincere, ‘I’m really sorry, you know, that your son died,’ but it was totally insincere, more of whining type, ‘I’m sorry.’”

Woods says that shaking President Obama’s hands at his son’s memorial service was “like shaking hands with a dead fish.”

Obviously, none of you progressives are interested in the truth, just talking points from the leftist/collectivists/statists in office in D.C.

Now, diss this dead soldier's father....who was there. You weren't.

EDIT: Well, I can see at least 4 collectivists did just that.......diss this father........this from the oh so concerned progressives/collectivists moaning and groaning and calling names about entitlement programs being cut by the mean ole' "uncompassionate" Conservatives trying to regin in our out-of-control spending............strange how "compassion" only reaches as far as the latest Government entitlement program. I've worked for more than a few (in fact 16 out of my 20-year career) .......each one (EACH of them) of them cheat (one even gave classes on how to do this--MHMR) to get their numbers up. Strange, indeed.

As to how Obama responded to meeting the father of one of those killed....

Select one of the funerals to attend from the A-J, a complete stranger to you, and attend the funeral. Shake hands and offer comforting words to some family you don't know. See how good you are at being sincere. (Yes, certainly you should have sympathy for any family, impacted by the death of a love one) Oh, yes take off from work to attend this funeral......

Back on point, what is the point of the Benghazi "witch hunt" when Clinton already took responsibility for the incident?

And y'all will still be whining about it, when Clinton wins in 2016......

The radical leftist machine is running in overdrive now in an effort to keep up that smoke screen about their lack of a decent candidate for any office in the USA, and to quash the birthers from agreeing that Cruz has no right to run for any office, much less appear out of a West Texas black cloud on horseback.

Like the crank about the IRS pinpointing "conservative" groups applying for their tax-exempt status, someone in there is simply being paid by someone or something to stir up this mess. I've started many non-profit corporations in my career, and those questions, reports requested, and other information were all required to be submitted to the IRS Tax-Exempt Division even to receive a temporary status letter. Just another "blow" and not worth our time.

What we need to pay attention to is how much money our elected are receiving from lobbying groups, how much the insurance companies have spent over their rightful limits and billed to Medicare, and what they are doing with their personal income including their "blind trusts," in family members' names. I know one bond trader who creates an incredible fortunate for his political (and ex-politicos) clients. . . they leave office with a fortune to invest. This is precisely what we must be watching and demanding reports on throughout their terms in office, and afterward. That is our money!

This tiresome excuse I've already answered and then I posed another question which has yet to be answered:

Your link was made in >>>>>>January 2013 PRIOR to the truth about the report that this "report" had been edited 12 times..

Was she accepting responsibility for the "edited" report? Yes.

Has she accepted responsibility for the "unedited report'? No.

Funerals:
I've attended more than a few. It's not that hard to give an empathetic response to someone who has just lost a loved one, not that hard at all......and looking over someone's shoulder while turning your face toward them while supposedly "empathizing" with them isn't empathy. It's called showboating for the camera.......this father felt it. Repeat: You weren't there.......he was!

"Frankly, I'm glad the AJ is putting out some conservative issues......I'm guessing you'd prefer that just one side of the story be told? Hmmmm..." The AJ opinions and editorials are not exactly lacking in conservative perspectives.

What has gotten you so upset? Can you give us any examples of convictions in the past that might warrant this type of over reaction by Republicans?

I'd rather you just come out and say that witch hunts are the new definition for job creation in GOTP circles.

thanks for the minimizing.....
I'm not upset. I just tire of the superficial comments such as "overreaction".......from the collectivists on this site and I'm just backing up claims with links to prove the truth of what is/has happened. Convictions in the past to justify what? Your president, his secretary of state, U.N. ambassador lied to the public, even to the family members of the fallen?

Why are you so insistent upon minimizing what has happened? Why so much of an apologist for this incompetent administation?

.......Maybe, you are upset?

Yeah, I see a liberal slant to this newspaper. Quite a bit, in fact........I had problems last year even getting some posts to show up on some of more liberal article/blogs........I even wrote the female staff member in charge of getting them posted. No response. None.

No, I didn't say I didn't find convictions or conspiracy.....I'm saying Pickering didn't. Tell your story to ABC, btw. I find this president's reactions, along with his sycophants hysterical.

His comments are that this is about ‘political motivations', which I think I've read somewhere on this site...... pretending like nothing new is coming out of this investigation lately in order to cover the poor results of your foreign policy most definitely qualifies.

Not interested in your change of subject (diversion) about Bush, btw.
Fortunately, this happened under Obama. If something similar happened under Bush, the sidewalks would be unsafe due to leaping Libs descending from above.

I've seen this seemingly innocuous argument made before in what some think is an "apology" for this Incompetent-in-Chief. Of course, no one in this administration wanted the truth about Libya to come out .........it was a freakin' gun running operation just like Fast & Furious was.....as well as an interrogation center for the CIA (who wasn't even supposed to be there b/c AQ was on the "run and decimated". .....Remember?) Everyone there was CIA, including Stevens, who was collecting our weapons used from bringing down the SoDarnInsane's administration and giving them to the "rebel" leaders trying to unseat Assad, which "rebels" included (still does) AQ elements. Obama was effectively arming AQ! You bet your sweet bippy Obama didn't want this to get out. I've been arguing this point on other sites ever since this thing went down. You'll get none(arguments) from me now.

The House isn't "wasting" money to do an investigation.......that's what our Congress and Senate are supposed to do! Sheesh! Only in a Statist/Progressive/ Collectivist's mind would this thought even enter into anyone's head.

So where is all of this supposed to go? What is it going to accomplish?

What you conservatoves really want, is for Obama no longer to be President. Is that it? It isn't going to happen.

The American people are tired of hearing about Benghazi. All that is happening is to another conspiracy to feed the conservatives.

Did you know that George H.W. Bush was possibly involved in the Kennedy assassination? He claims he doesn't remember where he was when that happened, yet there are photographs of him in Dallas that day. How is that for a conspiracy?

Wail away, all you wish. Since you have been posting, how many converts have you gotten from what you have written? Mr, Conservative has been ranting away about Benghazi for months on his so-called "blog", He hasn't baptized any new folks in the blood of extreme conservatism either. All you are doing is placing labels on people who disagree with you. Wow! Big deal.

Obama's people might be, but not "the American people"......unless you've polled them. have you? HufPo did:

Benghazi Poll
President Barack Obama speaks in Austin, Texas, May 9, 2013. A new poll finds that more Americans disapprove than approve of Obama's handling of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last September. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Americans are more likely to disapprove than approve of the way President Barack Obama has handled the aftermath of last September's attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and many think that the administration intentionally misled the American people about the attack, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll.

And, yes, we Conservatives don't want Obama for president. Obviously. What kind of question is that? I'm guessing you guys were just outstandingly happy with Booosh, right? You wanted him gone, right? *facepalm*

Nowhereland called me a "hick" in an attempt to somehow put me down or make me feel bad, I guess?? ......my post proves otherwise. Guess he thought he could win by no other way? I dunno.

"hick": located in a rural or culturally unsophisticated area: a hick town.
A hick is a person from the country, a country bumpkin, an unsophisticated person, a yokel, someone from the "boonies" (boondocks), or from the "sticks."

You having a hard time keeping up .......with yet another strawman diversion ?

Do you think Obama will get impeached over this? Is that your fantasy?

Obama can't run again for President...so??????

Is the target Hillary in 2016?

Considering the cast of clowns Republicans have waiting in the wings to run, the election in 2016 will another failure. Now, I will back off from that remark. One excellent candidate the Republicans have--who is not a clown--is Chris Christie. But, he is far too liberal
for the Tea Party mindset and they won't nominate him.

that the "American people are tired" of Benghazi, or something.
The poll proves otherwise.

Guy, you get one question answered, then you just keep moving the goalposts to another question if you don't like the answer I give (which proves you wrong). Guess you've never debated before in front of an audience?

.....get real.

This isn't going to go away, no matter how much you Collectivists (or sycophants?) would like to think it is.

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." Jonathan Swift "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." Groucho Marx

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." Jonathan Swift "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." Groucho Marx

If the story was that the 15 wealthiest people in the world had no degrees, then this would be enough. However, this is an article on the 15 wealthiest people in the world who do not have college degrees. No mention is made of all the wealthiest with college degrees.

Can you get me a link to something that includes the wealthiest, and whether or not they have college degrees?

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." Jonathan Swift "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." Groucho Marx

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/299345-poll-clinton-trusted-over-congressional-gop-on-benghazi
Poll: Voters trust Hillary Clinton more than GOP lawmakers on Benghazi
Excerpt: But the new poll indicates the issue is not yet catching on with voters. A majority, by a 56-38 split said passing immigration reform was more important than investigating Benghazi. And a majority said passing a bill that requires background checks for gun purchases should be a priority over Benghazi by 52-43 percent.
Sixty-five percent of respondents said they didn't think Benghazi was the biggest political scandal in American history.
And despite GOP attacks, more than half of respondents still view Clinton favorably, by 52-44 percent. More than half of respondents, though, view congressional Republicans unfavorably, at 36-57.

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." Jonathan Swift "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." Groucho Marx